Problem parsing namespaces with xml.dom.minidom

[Fredrik Lundh]

Mike McGavin wrote:

> I'm not terribly experienced with XML in general, so it's possible that I'm just incorrectly 
> interpreting how things are supposed to work to begin with.  If this is the case, please accept my 
> apologies, but I'd like any suggestions for how I should be doing it.  I'd really just like to be 
> able to parse an XML document into a DOM, and then be able to pull out elements relative to their 
> namespaces.

is the DOM API an absolute requirement?

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